Test 4 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…
In Plants vs. Zombies sunflowers make sunshine for the garden. What is right about real sunflowers?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Plants · What happens: make, be · To what, where: sunshine
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 377 «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: In Plants vs. Zombies sunflowers make sunshine for the garden.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Plants | case |
| 2 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 3 | vs. | vs. | ADP | _ | 5 sunflowers | case |
| 4 | Zombies | zombie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sunflowers | compound |
| 5 | sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Plants | nmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Plants vs. Zombies sunflowers | sunshine | for the garden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sunshine=Product for garden=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What is right about real sunflowers?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 sunflowers | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sunflowers | amod |
| 6 | sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 right | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about real sunflowers; right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
They glow at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 glow | nsubj |
| 2 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | They | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They use sunlight to make food; they do not make sunshine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 use | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 use | advcl |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 use | parataxis |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | They | sunlight | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | They not said here | food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | ||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | they | sunshine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sunshine=Product |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
They make light for other plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 plants | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plants | amod |
| 6 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | They | light | for other plants | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent light=Product for plant=Asset |
Option 4
They store sunshine in their seeds to shine in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 store | nsubj |
| 2 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 store | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 seeds | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 seeds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 store | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shine | mark |
| 8 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 store | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 winter | case |
| 10 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shine | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | They | sunshine | their seeds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme in seed=Location | |||
| 2 | shine | to-infinitive | They not said here | winter | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/t4/